Planning a Dahua DSS Pro deployment? Use this free interactive calculator to estimate the server hardware you need — including CPU class, RAM, video storage, AI snapshot storage, GPU, RAID usable capacity, and network bandwidth — based on your actual camera groups and workload parameters.
Just enter your camera count, resolution, bitrate, recording schedule, AI features, and client connections. The calculator instantly recommends a server configuration sized for your project.
How to Use This Calculator
- Camera Groups: Add one row per camera type (e.g. 60 × 2MP at 1.5 Mbps, 30 × 4MP at 2.5 Mbps). Mix as many groups as your project needs.
- Recording & Storage: Set daily recording hours, retention period, smart codec reduction, filesystem overhead, RAID level, and HDD size.
- AI, Clients & Network: Enter person library size, concurrent client connections, face recognition channels, AI snapshot settings, and playback streams.
- Click Calculate Server Config to get your recommended hardware spec.
What It Calculates
- CPU class recommendation
- Required RAM
- Raw and usable video storage (with RAID overhead)
- AI snapshot storage
- GPU requirement based on FR channel count
- Network bandwidth (inbound recording + client live-view + playback)
- Minimum HDD count for selected RAID level
Note: This tool is an estimator. Final sizing should be validated against the exact DSS Pro version, camera model specs, AI workload, RAID controller performance, and project SLA requirements.
For DSS Pro software downloads and licensing, visit our Dahua DSS Pro page.
